It’s very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.
RAM DASSInformation is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
More Ram Dass Quotes
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The most exquisite paradox, as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
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Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
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If you observe well, your own heart will answer.
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All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.
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We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
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The next message you need is always right where you are.
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By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.
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Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use It!
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A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.
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Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.
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The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
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Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.
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Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
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The dance goes from realizing that you’re separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.
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